Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Forrest Highway

Forrest Highway

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 20, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 13:37, 5 September 2015 (UTC)



Forrest Highway is a 95 km highway in Western Australia's Peel and South West regions, extending Perth's Kwinana Freeway from east of Mandurah down to Bunbury. The highway begins in Ravenswood, continues around the Peel Inlet to Lake Clifton, and heads south to finish at Bunbury's Eelup Roundabout. Old Coast Road was the original Mandurah–Bunbury route, dating back to the 1840s. Since the 1980s the state government has been upgrading the main Perth to Bunbury route, by extending Kwinana Freeway south from Perth, and constructing a dual carriageway on Old Coast Road north of Bunbury, including bypasses around Australind, Dawesville, and Mandurah. Construction of the New Perth Bunbury Highway project, which became Forrest Highway and the final Kwinana Freeway extension, began in December 2006, and the new highway was opened on 20 September 2009. Within one year of opening, the number of road accidents in the area had decreased significantly, but tourism and businesses in the towns on bypassed routes were also affected. In June 2014, Forrest Highway was extended south to Bunbury by renaming much of Old Coast Road as well as Australind Bypass as part of the highway.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Queen Elizabeth Way scheduled for 28 August; California State Route 57 on 11 May 2015; last road article from outside U.S./Canada was Great Eastern Highway on 16 June 2014
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 * Promoted: 20 March 2015
 * Reasons for nomination: 6th anniversary of opening
 * Support as nominator. Evad37 &#91;talk] 09:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - great date and great idea for an animated image to adorn the main page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:40, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Alternate videos available at c:Category:Forrest Highway - Evad37 &#91;talk] 09:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. Although I'll note that M-28 Business (Ishpeming–Negaunee, Michigan) ran on July 24, 2015, but we had a request for about 3–4 more road articles this year not including the QEW TFA and this. (I have another article to nominate for a double anniversary October, so that should fill up our quota.)  Imzadi 1979   →   11:45, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - Relevant anniversary for Australian road.  Dough   4872   04:14, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: List of Interstate Highways in Michigan has been scheduled to appear as the TFL for September 18.  Imzadi 1979  →   02:54, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. We can't run two road articles within three days. - SchroCat (talk) 07:26, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Surely we can have one road article from outside the US/Canada, out of all the road article TFAs this year. If it really is a problem to have a road list article from a different continent in a different main page section a couple of days before, then maybe the list can be featured on another day, given that there doesn't appear to be significant date relevance to Sep 18. Pinging . - Evad37 &#91;talk] 11:14, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure many people will particularly care where the road is, just that it's another road article two days after the previous one, and I see another nomination for one on 10 October too, which will further compund the problem. - SchroCat (talk) 12:39, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * As I noted above, there has been a request for 3 to 4 more road articles for TFA this year. The list can be rescheduled if it's really an issue given the lack of a date connection, but I don't think it should be an issue anyway. They are separate main page sections, and TFL is "below the fold", so to speak. Additionally, we've had similar topics from differnt countries run before without much, if any, complaint.  Imzadi 1979  →   15:12, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
 * To be honest, it really doesn't bother me that much. We've surely had plenty of cases where a TFA and TFL in close proximity came from the same topic area, and it hasn't been a big deal to this point. TFL hasn't been overflowing in road lists either; the last one featured was in December 2014, so we're probably overdue to run one. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 20:11, 7 September 2015 (UTC)